Need perl help to remove dpkg dependency on licensecheck (devscripts-minimal)

[Sandro Mani]

Hi

Recent versions of devscripts-minimal (containing licensecheck) began 
depending on dpkg-perl due to [1]. Unfortunately I'm quite unfamiliar 
with perl, can anyone suggest an alternative way to accomplish the same 
which does not use spawn from Dpkg::IPC?

Thanks
Sandro

[1] 
https://github.com/Debian/devscripts/commit/c0687bcde23108dd42e146573c368b6905e6b8e8